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Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks.
Eloisa James
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Eloisa James
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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You are absolutely beautiful, Anne said. But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play. (Eleanor) Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?
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Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.
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I woke up this morning,” Gabriel said, “thinking of nothing more than rolling over and pulling you into my arms and kissing you again. Kissing: only kissing. As if I were a green boy of fourteen. In case you don’t realize it, Kate, kissing is not a man’s usual inclination in the morning.
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I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.
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I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.
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God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.
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Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.
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Where did you go to school?” Piers inquired. “Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish.
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They were partners. She would always make impulsive decisions and he would make slow, reasoned ones. He would always be a little terrified that she would look at him with the scorn he saw in his mother's eyes. And she would always be a little terrified that he would look at her and not love her enough. In short, they were made for each other.
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Yes Leopold, Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the shining.
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If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.
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Dogs come when they're called cats take a message and get back to you later.
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Let go of the anger, hang on to the good lessons.
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Here, drink your liqueur, Henry said, tossing back her drink. I carry it with me everywhere because it's the only kind of drink that Leo doesn't like, so there's a chance I'll still have some tomorrow.
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Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip.
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She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.
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You’re the only one for me. I came back from the dead for you, Daisy. Twice.
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